US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is taking his file-sharing propaganda to the nation’s youth.

From Digital Music News today:

In a move similar to the anti-drug campaigns waged in schools, Gonzales spoke to 7th and 8th graders at Windmill Springs School in California, warning of the dangers of file-sharing. “I’m the top cop in the US,” Gonzales told the children. “I want you to know that if you illegally download a game or music or a video it’s stealing, just as if you went into a store and stole blue jeans.”

No mention of the Big Four record labels and Big Six movie studios who are behind the talks, and many influential bloggers and rights-advocates continue to note that file sharing doesn’t involve theft, as nothing has been stolen and no one has been deprived of anything they used to own. Essentially no money changes hands, and it’s extremely hard to prove that downloading an album equals a lost sale.

Meanwhile, Harvard has determined that file-sharing isn’t equivalent to stealing, the biggest soda company in the world is offering free music downloads from big name artists (with no DRM restrictions) and artists across the country are loading their tracks up on MySpace and are explaining in NYT op eds that copy protection actually hurts them.

Unlike public sex education and middle school drug programs, no word if parents were required to sign a waiver before their children were exposed to Gonzales’ messages.

photo stolen from P2P